Corn harvesting machine



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H. I'. URIE. GoRN HARVBSTING MAGHINB.

No. 320,416. PatentedJune '16,18-85.

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CORN HARVESTING MACHINE. i NO. 320,416I PatentedJune 16; 1885i` WITNESSES: 4 INVENTOR:

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l'IENRY F. URIE, OF GHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND.

CORN-HARVESTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,416, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed July l, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY F. URIE, a cit izen of the United States, residing at Chestertown, in the county of Kent and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful lm provements in Corn-Harvestin g Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a corn-harvester, and it consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure lis a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same.

The letter A designates the main wheel;`

a, its axle, in bearings on the frame B. A cogwheel, C, is attached to the side of the main wheel.

A shaft, b, has bearings in the frame and extends fore and aft, and has a pinion, b', that is adapted to slide endwise by the well-known groove-and-feather device, and thereby gear with the cogfwheel C or disengage from it. A lever, b2, rod b3, and hand-lever b4 comprise the mechanism for shifting the said pinion. The shaft b carries an internal gear-wheel, o, and a small pinion, ol, on another shaft, df, engages with the said gear-wheel. At the front end of the shaft d is a crank-head, d2. A pitman-rod, e, on the crank-head drives the cutterbar E with great rapidity.

The cutter-bar projects at one side only of the draft-tongue, and is of length sufficient to take two rows of standing stalks at once. Two vertical shafts, F, are mounted back of the cutter. Each has reel-arms f attached to a hub, f', which is adjustable up and down. One reelshaft is near the frame B, and takes effect on the stalks of one row, and the other reel-shaft is far enough removed from the first one to take effect on the stalks of the second row, as will be readily, understood.

The reels are driven by the following mechanism: The lower end of each shaft F has a' sprocket-wheel, f2. One chain, g, passes over both sproeketwheels, and also over a sprocket-wheel, h, on the lower end of a vertical shaft, h', located at the rear of the frame B. This shaft has a bevelwheel,which engages with a like wheel on one end of a hori zontal shaft, i, which has at its other end another wheel, 17, which engages with a wheel, b5, on the rear end of the shaft b. The two reels, therefore, are driven through the medium of the wheels, one chain, g, and shaft b.

At the front are two rods, G, for each row, which comprise gatherers to raise stalks, which may be bent down, and direct them to the reels and cutter. The gatherers project before the cutter, and the front end, j, is close to the ground, and from thence incline upward and back, as shown. Each reel-shaft may be braced by one of these rods.

A small side wheel, El, supports the projecting end of the cutter-bar and one side of the platform I.

A caster-wheel, J, has its shank 7c pivoted in the rear end of the frame B. The bifurcated standard l, which straddles the wheel J,

has holes n arranged in line one above the other. The bolt m is removable and comprises the axle of the wheel, and may be shifted to holes n, higher or lower.

As the axis c of the main wheel is intermediate of the cutter and caster-wheel, the rear end of the frame may be lowered or raised, which has the effect to raise or lower the cut ter-bar E at the front. The same adjustment of the rear end of the frame acts also to change the height of the tilting platform I.

A brace-bar, L, has one end attached to the side of the frame, and extends across and below the platform, and its other end is attached to the axis' of the sidewheel, H. This brace-bar gives rigidity'to the parts.

The platform l has hinges or pivots p a its front end, whereby the rear end may tilt. The front end of the platform, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, is elevated, or has position higher than the cutter-bar. Thereby the rear end may drop or tilt down, as seen in Fig. 1, without striking against the brace-bar L.

at the side and near the rear of the frame. A lever, r, at the front of the frame, has a bolt, r', which engages with a segment shaped rack, s, whereby the lever is held. A chain, t, hasl one end attached at t to the platform, passes over the pulley q, and has the other end 95 A pulley, q, is supported by a bracket, q',

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attached to the said lever r. It will thus be' seen the platform may be raised or dropped by moving the lever.

The cut cornstalks fall on the platform, and may be carried thereon until a sufficient number have accumulated to form a bundle, when, upon letting the platform drop, the ends of the stalks will rest on the ground, and they will be dragged oft as the machine moves for- Ward.

The platform has two upright sides, u u, which direct the cornstalks onto the platform and keep them there until they are dumped.

A seat, c, for the driver is in posltion wherefrom the two levers may be reached.

The letter w designates the draft-tongue.

To permit Ythe front of the frame to lower without affecting the tongue-@fthe tongue may be jointed, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and on each side of the joint have attached an iron, m, having a T-shaped end, y, provided with holes z, while a bolt, Iz, passes through one of the holes and tongue.

From the foregoing the operation of the machine will be readily understood.

Having described my invention, 'I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. lA cornharvester having acutter-bar, E, a reel mounted on a vertical shaft, and gatherer-rods G, projecting before the cutter and braein g the reel-shaft, as set forth.

2. A corn-harvester having in combina- -tion a frame, B, having at its rear a pulley, q,

in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. URIE. Witnesses:

VACHEL BURGEss, JOHN D. URIE.

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